Tabitha Bast, Leeds Plan C 1. Make Anxiety your Friend. Yeah, I mean it. You know that churning in the belly, the tight feeling in your throat, that Feel we call anxiety and use to explain how we can’t deal, can’t do? That’s adrenaline. that’s the rush of superstrength before we go into battle, before […]
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Acid Communism, Actions, Mental Health, Strategy
The struggle for decent wages and conditions within the ‘gig economy’ has entered a new phase recently with the Uber court victory and the announcement of a union-building drive by the IWGB amongst Deliveroo workers in London. The initial energy of the summer’s spontaneous strikes is successfully being converted into long-term campaigns. As part of
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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike, Work
The story of this election is not a surge of support for the far right. It is the suppression, disillusionment and depression of the support for the left. The story of this election is not Donald Trump’s win, but Hillary Clinton’s loss. The story of the next four years will be a rising tide of
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Anti-fascism, Borders/Migration, Inter/Transnational
The first Black Protest (Czarny Protest) on Monday 3 October was the largest strike by women in Polish history. In opposition to a proposed new law banning all abortions, 100,000 women took part in demonstrations across 147 cities and towns in Poland, with 30,000 attending a demonstration in Warsaw. It was estimated by The Independent
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Inter/Transnational, Social Reproduction, Strike
This October I have travelled to Rojava to offer what skills I have as a volunteer. Despite three years of military attack, political hostility, and economic embargo the revolution in Rojava, complete with all the victories, setbacks, and contradictions that this process entails, is continuing to expand in the midst of the brutal Syrian civil
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Inter/Transnational, Kurdistan
Interview with Cihan Kendal, YPG Commander in Rojava discussing the role of international volunteers, women in the YPG/YPJ, and the current nature of the revolution in Rojava.
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Kurdistan
// ACTIONS / SKILLSHARES / PARTY / START YOUR OWN #RENTSTRIKE! // LONDON Facebook Event To the friends we have yet to meet: We invite you to a weekend of possibility – a starting point where we transform the small spark of a local movement into national collective action. The UCL rent strike won over
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Housing, Strike
By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester Writing in the Telegraph at the beginning of April, the now-former Prime Minister framed Brexit as a ‘needless and reckless… act of economic and political self-harm’[i]. The same conclusion was drawn by a Financial Times editorial in the days prior to the referendum; with Brexit amounting to
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Commons, Inter/Transnational
An interview with Rojava Plan about their Feed the Revolution fundraiser and the co-operative economy by our Rojava Solidarity Cluster.
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Kurdistan
The second campaign statement from our Rojava Solidarity Cluster outlining their aims for the upcoming months.
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Kurdistan
By Bertie Russell of Plan C Manchester The 23rd June 2016 is likely to be a miserable day for anyone with an even remotely left-leaning conscience. The weeks before are already overcast with a feeling of inescapable gloom reminiscent of that which consumes a student, the clock ticking down on an exam in which they
This short interview between YPJ Commander Nisrîn Abdullah and two anarchists from England who are currently living and working in Rojava took place in May 2016
